NASA and ESA Space Telescopes Lock-in on the Brightest Gamma Ray Burst Ever Recorded Astronomers around the world were captivated by an unusually bright and long-lasting pulse of high-energy radiation that swept over the Earth on October 9, 2022. The emission came from a Gamma-Ra...
Swift is a next-generation, multi-wavelength observatory for transient gamma-ray astromomy. A NASA mission with an international collaboration, Swift is in development for launch in 2004. It is designed to make breakthroughs in determining the origin of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and in using G...
Utilizing data fromNASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, researchers discovered a unique energy peak in the aftermath of the brightest Gamma-Ray burst ever seen, suggesting the annihilation of electrons and positrons. This finding provides new insights into the behavior of cosmic je...
Astronomers from around the world have used data from satellites and observatories to explain the brightest Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) ever recorded. An unusually bright GRB, now deemed GRB 130427A, was observed on April 27th 2013 by the Swift satellite and w
"This burst was a whopper," said Swift principal investigator Neil Gehrels of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "It blows away every gamma ray burst we've seen so far." Swift's Burst Alert Telescope picked up the burst at 2:12 a.m. EDT, March 19, and pinpoin...
SinceNASA’sNeil Gehrels Swift Observatoryfirst discovered an SGRB afterglow in 2005, astronomers have spent the last 17 years trying to understand which galaxies produce these powerful bursts. Stars within a galaxy can give insight into the environmental conditions needed to produce SGRBs and can co...
University, Durham University, the University of Edinburgh, the Queen’s University Belfast, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network Incorporated, the National Central University of Taiwan, the Space Telescope Science Institute, NASA under Grant...
//heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xanadu/xspec/. Swift tools are available fromhttps://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/lheasoft/, and Fermi tools fromhttps://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/analysis/scitools/gtburst.html. The 2SBPL model is published in ref. 19. Plots were created using MATPLOTLIB108in ...
This space wallpaper shows an unusually bright gamma-ray burst, which produced a jet that emerged at nearly the speed of light. Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful type of explosions in the universe and typically mark the destruction of a massive star. (Image credit: NASA/Swift/Cruz de...
The brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen as observed by the Swift X-Ray Telescope around an hour after it erupted.(Image credit: NASA/Swift/A. Beardmore (University of Leicester)) One of the most remarkable GRBs observed to date is known as the "brightest of all time," or BOAT, GRB. ...